Annual Report 2007 - The Australian Nanotechnology Network

Interaction Energies and the Structure of Surfaces and Nano-Structures
19/02/2007 - 21/02/2007 – RMIT University, Melbourne
REPORT ON THE WORKSHOP: INTERACTION ENERGIES AND THE
STRUCTURE OF SURFACES AND NANO-STRUCTURES
19/02/2007 - 21/3/2007
Associate Professor Salvy Russo, Applied Physics, School of Applied
Sciences, RMIT University
1. SUMMARY
This workshop coincided with the visit to RMIT of Prof. Richard Needs, Theory of Condensed
Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University.
This workshop attracted over 40 participants from RMIT, Melbourne University, The University
of Wollongong, ANU, Curtin University of Technology, UTS Sydney and Swinburne,
University of Technology.
Keynote talks were given by Professor Needs (Cambridge University, UK), Professor John
Dobson (Griffith University, Brisbane), Professor Mukunda Das (ANU, Canberra), Professor
Julian Gale (Curtin University of Technology, Perth), Associate Professor Mike Ford (UTS,
Sydney) and Dr. Manolo Per (RMIT, Applied Physics).
A majority of participants presented talks at the workshop the titles of which are given below. It
is expected that some of the talks will be published in a special edition of “The Journal of
Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience” (Guest Editors A/Prof S.Russo and Prof I. Snook).
2. WORKSHOP SPONSORS
1. The sponsor for the visit of Professor Richard Needs, was The RMIT Foundation
2. Workshop Sponsors:
a. The RMIT Foundation
b. The RMIT SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES
c. Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network
d. ACCELRYS SOFTWARE INCORPORATED
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